A wind of panic is blowing on the Algerian intelligence services, who are desperately searching for the spy who leaked information about the emergency admission of Brahim Ghali , leader of the Polisario, to a hospital in Logroño, Spain under the borrowed name of Mohamed Ben Battouche, Algerian nationality, on April 18. An investigation is underway.
The diplomatic crisis between Morocco and Spain caused by the hospitalization of Brahim Ghali, the Polisario chief, in Logroño under the assumed name of Mohamed Ben Battouche, an Algerian national, is worsening. The first vice-president of the Spanish government, Carmen Calvo, accuses Rabat of having exceeded "the limit of good neighborliness".
Sid Ahmed Al Batal, a founding member of the Polisario Front and Minister of Equipment of the "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)", died on Wednesday at the age of 69 from the coronavirus.
He was firm and objective. Former Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Garcia-Margallo has sharply challenged the position currently adopted by Spanish leaders on the Sahara issue. Invited Tuesday evening on a Spanish radio station, he indicated that his successor is on the wrong track and must revise his copy.
For the past few days, officers have been assigned to the police station in the city of San Pedro to monitor the Logroño hospital where Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front, is hospitalized.
The leader of the Polisario, Brahim Ghali, has just been informed of the time of his appearance before the investigating judge in Madrid, Santiago Pedraz Gomez. It will take place on June 1 at 10:30 a.m. by videoconference.
The Polisario seems to want to obstruct Spanish justice. A leader of the separatist movement, Salem Lebsir, claims that Brahim Ghali , who is due to appear on June 1 before the investigating judge in Madrid, Santiago Pedraz Gomez, will leave Spain in the next few days. Other sources claim that he has already left the Iberian peninsula.
Since May 23rd, many Moroccan internet users have been calling for a boycott of Spanish products. At the origin of these calls, the new tension between Morocco and Spain provoked by the emergency admission of Brahim Ghali , the Polisario leader, to a hospital in Logroño, under a false identity.
Tensions between the kingdom and Spain remain high. Morocco is insisting on legal proceedings against the Polisario leader, Brahim Ghali before the Spanish justice system.
In Ceuta, there have been multiple scenes of forced expulsions and violence committed by the Spanish security forces in recent days, who throw migrants, including many vulnerable children, into the sea. This is at least the denunciation made by Amnesty International Spain.
The leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, had secretly traveled to Spain at least six times under the government of Pedro Sánchez, before his admission in April to the San Pedro de Logroño hospital, according to sources from the Spanish intelligence services.
The crisis between Morocco and Spain, born after the reception of Brahim Ghali in a hospital in Logroño, is not about to see its epilogue. This Sunday, Arancha González Laya, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, indicated that the leader of the Polisario "will return to his country when he has recovered".